skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's odd that they include the phrase "a board game invented in prison" in every photo caption. Is this an AI caption thing that repeats the same descriptor each time?

> Dana Lopez sands a wooden token for poleana, a board game invented in prison, in his workshop in Mexico State, Mexico, Friday, Oct. 25, 2024. (AP Photo/Ginnette Riquelme)

> Jonathan Rulleri, the founder of Poleanas Canada Frogs, holds up a poleana board, a game he invented in prison, to be raffled off before the start of a tournament in Mexico City, Sunday, Nov. 17, 2024.

> A player moves his piece in poleana, a board game invented in prison, during a tournament in Mexico City, Sunday, Nov. 17, 2024

> Dana Lopez, right, paints a board for poleana, a board game invented in prison, while her son Kevin plays in their workshop in the State of Mexico, Mexico, Friday, Oct. 25, 2024

> Residents play poleana, a board game invented in prison, in Mexico City, Sunday, Dec. 8, 2024
> Overall I think these types of houses are not solving the root issues

I don't think anyone has a solution to the root issues. At this point, the fastest way to fix homelessness is to let the currently homeless people die out, while trying our best to prevent people from becoming homeless.
I genuinely wonder how many emails I've missed because some system flagged the email address as invalid or suspicious.
The current infighting between republicans over H1Bs seems a counterexample.
Pigment Mixing into Digital Painting
My dad worked for TVA (in Knoxville) on their nuclear plants. I got a tour of Oak Ridge including a test reactor where you could look into a reactor core … through about 20 feet of flowing water, an early unforgettable blue.
I also do not understand who gives a shit about endorsements?! there has never been an endorsement that swayed any election, freaking every person that has shaken a hand or been in the same room with DJT (not to mention every person that has ever worked with him including ones he handpicked for highest positions in his previous administration) endorsed Harris… the endorsement charade needs to stop in America, it is the one of the stupiest things there is
Mostly to discourage illegal immigration. Because there are no internal border controls, nobody knows if you are traveling from country to country or living permanently in one country.
> Is your workplace filled with high school students? I’ve never seen anything so petty and immature in my professional career.

I think the description I remember on glass door was that it was "high school all over again".
Of course, but those would be features in the product code deployed on users' devices (one time investment), not a service that has ongoing costs of operation associated with each call. They wouldn't just give this out for free (especially to older iPhones), it makes no business sense. If you're not paying for a product, you are the product!
Schengen has independent of the EU status. Eg. you can move freely from Germany to Switzerland (without obligatory border check) but not between Germany and EU-member Cyprus (there is the obligatory border check).
Related Show HN: I built a minimalistic perplexity killer (no discussion, 5 months ago) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41248480
Right? Biden actually pulled off a soft landing and got inflation under control. Just couldn’t land that messaging by the time it mattered.
At least those who started on a System 360 can run some applications essentially unmodified on modern hardware...

The bus factor on that PDP-11 software must be uncomfortably low.
> I think President Carter might be the only one who felt genuine and didn't exhibit narcissism.

He was the opposite of narcissistic, he was honest to a fault, telling the truth even when it was unflattering to his public image: he freely admitted - and without direct prompting - in a Playboy interview that he had looked at a lot of women (other than his wife) with lust[1].

1. WARNING - site is on a Playboy domain - you may not want to open this on a work computer or have any anti-NSFW mononitoring of your browser activity. https://www.playboy.com/read/playboy-interview-jimmy-carter/
> Attaching medical insurance to one's job is a market distortion caused by government tax policy. I.e. it enables one to buy insurance with pre-tax dollars rather than after-tax dollars.

Also the ACA Employer Mandate[1]. Get rid of that and maybe figure out some sort of "nutrition label" style thing to make it easier to compare offers that are more cash vs more benefits.

[1] https://www.irs.gov/affordable-care-act/employers/employer-s...
I'll admit to skiphing section that discuss details that don't interest me but I did't find them.

in any case nothing is ideal anyway. The question is what set of pros and cons are the best compromise. That is something for the people of Iceland to answer not outsiders like me (and perhaps you)
At one point, there was a WeChat mini-app with a health-related form that needed to be filled out. However, a paper version was also available, and it's no longer required.
Ask any random person on the street to identify the domain in a URL or email address and what it means.
Not an unjustified prejudice, but an unjustified spending of resources, when such resources are not always readily available.

It's like creating a really nice set of Christmas lights, which only comes with a complete car as a part of the package, because it's powered by the car's engine. Indeed, a car's engine is a really good, well-engineered engine, and it works everywhere. But often one would really appreciate a string of Christmas lights that works from a wall power socket, and is 1000x lighter.

I find Kando a brilliant prototype of a future useful tool, which would have the size, complexity, and attack surface commensurate with the functions it provides.

I want to use something like Kando, but probably not Kando directly yet. I also suppose that Kando's approach, and most of the code, can be reused in proper web apps.
Electronics and ham radio hobbyists were the equivalent of computer geeks. In fact, the first home computers were electronic kits that needed to be assembled before they could be used.

Hacking the phone system to make long-distance calls was a thing too.

I'm sure there have always been people who hyper-focused on something. In the 1800s it was probably scientific experiments.
Incorrect. The U.S. was created by British settlers. The “operating system” of the country—everything from the legal system to the prevailing norms at elite institutions—remains Anglo-American, and has virtually nothing from any other culture.

Immigration has provided cheap labor, but at the cost of degrading our social and political systems. Irish and Italian immigration, for example, destroyed the founders’ vision of self governance and replaced it with political machines that mobile masses of low information immigrants to legitimize top-down authoritarian systems.
> The European Commission is nominated by the European Council and and confirmed by the European Parliament.

> The European Council consists of government officials from the member states where they have been chosen by national democratic processes.

I disagree. Successful elected government officials from member states aren't governing the EU Commission and Council. They're governing their own member states, where they are elected by the public.

Unpopular, unsuccessful ex-government officials from member states are governing the EU, where they are appointed by bureaucrats.

Just look at the uninspiring Commissioners we've suffered over the last few years.

It's telling that the Von Der Leyen Commission scraped in with just 51.4% of MEP votes.

https://facts4eu.org/news/2024_dec_unpopular_eu_I

In her home country Germany, only 33% said she'd make a good Commission president.

https://www.politico.eu/article/most-germans-skeptical-of-ur...
The CHIPS act is going to be his legacy. That and the infra bill, I think. That bill is responsible for several bridges in my area getting much needed attention from what I understand.
I was once a top 1% stack overflow user. I didn't start contributing to make money, just to share information and learn from each other.

that can and should also be good enough for the AI era.
I’m sorry if I wasn’t clear: I’m not advocating for this viewpoint (nor against it, actually); I’m just explaining how this “line of thinking” usually goes, since that was a question from GP.
> Bacteriophages are another interesting medical technique ignored by the west.

Phage are interesting, but they're ignored because they're worse than antibiotics by nearly every measure. They're _very_ narrow spectrum. They're immunogenic. Phage have found ex vivo applications, such as treating meat to prevent listeria.

Source: worked in an evolutionary bio lab for two years culturing and cloning phage.
This line of thinking is what makes the website user-hostile.

I completely understood the function of the usernames from the start, but to this day I still sigh whenever I encounter a new Mastodon user on a different network because I have to do a song and dance to get them followed on my main account. The whole thing is cognitive overhead I do not want.
I'd argue it's about customisation, not as much about the process. A couple can't be made anywhere other than a factory, but we're seeing this exact thing happen more and more with custom chip design. Sure not hand made, but skewing towards custom. Previously, there were a handful of CPU's and that was it, but then GPUs came along, and now Tensor, Graviton, etc all with more specialized purpose. Maybe it won't be too long before people start building fabs in their basement, but I doubt it.

Also, custom PCB's are getting easier and easier, it seems like there's a ton of YouTube videos sponsored by and about doing custom PCB's for projects in 2024. Heck, I have an Air gradient in my house, and while it's not a custom CPU, it is a custom, relatively low volume PCB designed by (as far as I can tell) a single person, almost like an artist...

I'm not trying to add a lot to the conversation, just suggest that even chips are moving towards customisation and artisanship.
You are probably being cheeky, but just in case:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idiom

https://hinative.com/questions/18367967
Your arguments are making it hard to not be snarky when responding.

But your arguments are blaming "the EU" for clouds shadowing the sun, as to say - "the EU" doesn't have a strategy of maliciously importing migrants. And even if it did, migrants are not somehow magically bad. Having migration in Europe is not a new thing, it was so for thousands of years now - migrations of war refugees, religious and cultural groups, invasions and other restructurisations of countries...

To keep trade going + keep using internet, but also somehow stop people moving + culture changing is impossible. If you have freedom, you have freedom.

(And why do your arguments have a smell of "let's forget about Frontex"?)
My team did this at Square too.

When you give everyone a grab bag of everything without asking them what they need, it takes longer to materialize the other entities from other caches and systems, especially in bulk APIs. Most of your callers don't even need or read this data. It's just there, and because you don't know who needs what, you can never remove it or migrate away.

By requiring the caller to tell you what it wants, you gain an upper hand. You can throttle callers that request everything, and it gives you an elegant and graceful way to migrate the systems under the hood without impacting the SLA for all callers. You also learn which callers are using which data and can have independent conversations, migrations, and recommendations for them.

Each sub-entity type being requested probably has a whole host of other systems maintaining that data, and so you're likely dealing with active-active writes across service boundaries, cache replication and invalidation, service calls, and a lot of other complexity that the caller will never see. You don't want the entire universe of this in every request.

It's a nightmare to have everything in the line of every request for simply legacy reasons. If you have to return lots of sub-entities for everyone all the time, you're more likely to have outages when subsystems fail, thundering herd problems when trying to recover because more systems are involved, and longer engineering timelines due to added complexity of keeping everything spinning together.

By making the caller tell you what they need, you quantitatively know which systems are the biggest risk and impact for migrations. This moves the world into a more maintainable state with better downstream ownership. Every request semantically matches what the caller actually wants, and it hits the directly responsible teams.

Stripe might also be dealing with a lot of legacy migrations internally, so this might have also been motivated as they move to a better internal state of the world. Each sub-entity type might be getting new ownership.

Grab bag APIs are hell for the teams that maintain them. And though the callers don't know it, they're bad for them too.
Most people stop at step two and wait around for someone to do it for them.
Whenever there is a brief moment of free speech, they might find it odd. Similarly, they find it odd that Ukraine has kept its own transit pipelines open until just this week.
Intellectuals like Russell Brand, right ...
Obviously, for the three individual people who live in these, this is great.

But surely a single, government-run homeless shelter is far more cost-effective than building a bunch of individual tiny mobile homes? Plus it allows centralized access to services (medical, social, etc.), since the long-term goal is to get them into a job (if possible) and their own place.

It's hard for me to see how tiny mobile homes are helping in the long-term.
Your friends are lucky. But I don't have anything like that and I don't want to drive Uber because I think that would be torture.
Freedom of movement is not the same as Schengen.
Quote from the article: "Ferguson added that “you can’t organize a society on the basis of atheism.”

“It’s fine for a small group of people to say, ‘We’re atheist, we’re opting out,’ ” he said, “but, in effect, that depends on everyone else carrying on. If everyone else says, ‘We’re out,’ then you quickly descend into a maelstrom like Raskolnikov’s nightmare..."

There is absolutely no evidence to support that statement. A quick glance at the wiki page for irreligiousness shows many countries who are majority atheist.
Okay dude.. I'm offering feedback based on actual experience I have. You're free to ignore it if you want, but don't attack me for my opinions.

It's obvious when your website goes down. It's not obvious that emails aren't being delivered and you've missed something important that you'll never see.
Rental owners didn’t care, it was a business for them, I know because talking to them is easier than the hassle we went through and we tried.
* Lightning (no e)
Bluesky, Mastodon, and what's left of Twitter/X are all pretty much dead in my experience. There's just so much fragmentation or migration away generally that none of it is very interesting. I think a lot of people took the Musk Twitter takeover as an excuse to re-evaluate their whole relationship to that sort of platform which basically led to a death spiral.
Being able to do something 1,000 times faster is worthless if it means you are doing it to a level of quality that doesn’t meet a minimum threshold.

Will be curious to see how many people succeed with this approach. Maybe if everyone does this the sheer volume of shit will at least help realise how broken the current process is on both sides.
Unfortunately, the rarity of the super product means this tactic is useless.

Step 1. Be born with silver spoon in mouth
Since you're an expert in the field, the time you spend on an individual client is much less than what the person would spend figuring it out for themselves. And time is money. Whether a person is rich or poor.

I think you are thinking and operating in the old paradigm, thinking that somebody spending a few hundred dollars on getting expert help on the Internet is outrageous, even if it's a life changing spend. Would you consider somebody spending a few hundred dollars on expert advice in a fancy office to be outrageous? Then consider that your expertise is way higher. There's nothing wrong with you charging for your immigration services and expertise. And as I said, you can still offer as much information for free as you please. It's only better for sales.

Google does not owe you any traffic and they don't owe you any business income from affiliate links or ads. Zero. If you don't like Google using the information on your website that you are giving away for free, then it only takes a few minutes to remove your domain from Google.

You can combine giving information for free with getting paid for your work. But you can't demand that Google pays for that.
How has Bluesky degraded?
This is worse than the OP. What alternative universe is Apple living in where it thinks that defaulting to collecting people’s search histories without consent is OK?
Mystery Biscuits!
But what if it actually was an improvement?
That's the joke with the 3-eyed fish on the Simpsons: "It's all fine. You're supposed to be okay with nuclear waste in your environment."

I kinda want to get this Simpson's Jersey with a 3-eyed fish as the mascot that says Hanford or something on the back of it. I was thinking it should say maybe CESIUM 137 on the back.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/373450099460
> joining the EU is not the same as joining the Euro

Now, every country joining the EU is expected to join the Euro at some point.

https://economy-finance.ec.europa.eu/euro/enlargement-euro-a...

"Who can join and when?

All EU Member States, except Denmark, are required to adopt the euro and join the euro area. To do this they must meet certain conditions known as 'convergence criteria'."
> keeping AirBnB trash out of residential communities

Why not ban the activities you would classify as “trash” (presumably obnoxious behaviour) which can come from owners or short or long term renters, rather than focus on short term renters only?

It seems akin to banning driving from bars, rather than banning drunk driving.
Schengen is more about removing border controls so that EU can be more like USA in this regard. EU is about alignment with each other on common issues and resources like fishing waters, agriculture, trade deals, right etc.

They each have many implementation details, like if you are in EU but not in Schengen you don't have access to certain common databases.

The desire of countries cherrypicking and sovereignty made Europe very complex structure, I can't wait to have Federal Europe with every country in it with a simplified structure. Can be like US, can be like Switzerland or Germany maybe but thise structures over structures is just way too much and its begging for simplification.

Apparently, %36 of Spanish businesses haven't heard of the Schengen area and another %18 have heard of it but don't know what is it: https://europa.eu/eurobarometer/surveys/detail/3177
I don't have a system capable of building rust applications so no thank you
messaging is hard when prices never went down… you can’t send economist/finacial times article explaining what biden was able to pull of (albeit the raising deficit) to a farmer in oklahoma who is paying 80% more for his groceries…
Yup, Lisp is extremely malleable and egalitarian and unrestricted - that's why there's almost universally at least one dialect of Lisp exists for any non-lispy language and almost every known programming paradigm.

The only rule it insists on is the parentheses, and it's quite ridiculous how people dismiss the entirety of this foundation for incredibly powerful ideas and abstractions, solely for that reason.
> Not an unjustified prejudice, but an unjustified spending of resources, when such resources are not always readily available.

Maybe it is still in the experimentation phase in which case spending more resources is 100% justified.
Yeah, and then experts will use ad-free alternative clients and most people won't. But it will still be better than other social media systems that ban alternative clients.
Going through puberty isn't damage or mutilation, it's the process of development through which a child matures to an adult.
It's not "settled" not because it isnt true - Dube, Lester, Reich proved that conclusively that it is.

It's "debated" because raising the minimum wage hikes usually come out of profit margins: https://cepr.net/documents/publications/min-wage-2013-02.pdf

If there's one thing the business community and the econ think tanks it funds can all agree upon it's that any policy that involves sacrificing profits is Bad. Global warming denial and this both come from the same source.
Bullshit that there is no such thing as American culture. I don't even understand how someone can say that with a straight face unless they've only ever lived in the bubble of a major US city that has a lot of immigrants.

29 years here and I've lived in four major US cities, one minor suburban US city, one tiny suburban town and my wife and I are planning on retiring to an extremely rural red-blooded American community hours from any major city. There absolutely is American culture. To say it doesn't exist means you either don't see it out of virtue of where you live or you don't see it just like a fish doesn't know it's wet. I've also lived in two wildly different countries from the US. There absolutely is American culture.

I could actually live much much better in one of the other countries for which I have citizenship than in the US.

How long have you lived in the US and where have you lived since moving here?
Republicans have always been pro-immigrant because it's inherently pro-business. They just have to do a song and dance routine for the low IQ racist cohort of their constituency to make it seem like they're tough on it. Though I will say it's been rather amusing watching people act betrayed by Elon's thoughts on H1-B visa holders. Like, how did you idiots not see this coming? He's the richest person in the world for a reason. Plus he's an immigrant.
The Melbourne Metro is just a new tunnel on existing lines, so I would guess they are going to have to support some kind of interoperation between CBTC and non-CBTC? I mean, the ability to run CBTC trains on non-CBTC track or vice versa?

This is different from Sydney, where the Metro lines are physically disconnected from the traditional rail lines. (Apparently there is still some track linking the Northwest metro line to the Main Northern line underneath Epping station, legacy of the old Epping-Chatswood Rail Link, but it is blocked with off with stops; there is no plan for any rail connection between the new Metro West line and the traditional rail network, despite the fact that remnants of the old Carlingford line are directly adjacent to the site of the new Metro West maintenance facility, meaning they could create such a connection if they wanted to.)
My thoughts visiting the link:

Title: [..] NEW TRAILER (2012) [..]

Me: oh, hey, not that long ag..

Description: 12 Years ago
I pay for ChatGPT Teams. Much easier and better than this.
No, there absolutely is a huge demand for transshipment hubs. By shuttling cargo through Singapore, goods from all across Asia can be consolidated in one point for delivery to various European locations, and vice versa. It's the same model as airport hubs.

However, like many network efforts it's a winner-takes-almost-all market. Tanjung Pelepas is just across the border in Malaysia but it was too little, too late.
The Environmental Protection Agency was started by Richard Nixon in 1970.

The clean air act was in 1967.